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Expert advice to help you get the most out of stargazing, from DIY projects to practical astronomy tips.

Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) captured from Deir el Qamar Lebanon, overseeing Majdel El Meouch top, during nautical twilight, 5 July 2020. Taken by Maroun Habib. Equipment: Canon EOS 6D DSLR camera, TMB92SS telescope. Credit: Maroun Habib.

See Comet NEOWISE in the sky this month

Venus travels through Taurus this month and is close to the Hyades, Aldebaran and the Moon. Star positions correct for 03:00 BST (02:00 UT) mid-month, from the centre of the UK. Credit: Pete Lawrence

Observing guide See Venus in the Hyades star cluster this month

A view of Jupiter and its moons Io and Europa, captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft. Can you spot its fainter moons? Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Roman Tkachenko

Observing guide See Jupiter's moons this month

Saturn and Jupiter appear close together in the sky, and they are joined by a full Moon on 5 July 2020. Credit: Pete Lawrence

Observing guide How to see the planets in the night sky, July 2020

Why does the Moon sometimes appear during the day? Credit: Dermot Conlan / Getty Images

Why can we see the Moon during the day?

A multi-wavelength view of Supernova 1987A, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Angelich (NRAO/AUI/NSF); Hubble image: NASA, ESA, and R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation) Chandra image: NASA/CXC/Penn State/K. Frank et al. ALMA image: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) and R. Indebetouw (NRAO/AUI/NSF).

How to find and observe a supernova through your telescope

Make your own LED torch-pointer. Credit: Steve Tonkin

Make your own LED torch-pointer

Are you a solar observing expert? Follow our advanced guide and contribute to citizen science. Credit: Pete Lawrence

Solar citizen science: advanced observing and imaging of the Sun

An annular solar eclipse, 15 January 2010 in Qingdao, Shandong Province of China. Photo by Visual China Group via Getty Images.

Ring of fire annular solar eclipse, 21 June 2020: all you need to know

How to see and photograph the lunar occultation of Venus. Credit: Pete Lawrence

Lunar occultation of Venus, 19 June: how to see and photograph it

The path of 7 Iris as it passes through Sagittarius. Credit: Pete Lawrence

See asteroid 7 Iris in Sagittarius this month

Mars will appear closest to Neptune on 13 June in the morning sky. Credit: Pete Lawrence

See Mars and Neptune together in the early morning sky

Best portable telescopes for astronomy travel. Credit: Anton Petrus / Getty Images

12 of the best travel telescopes 2020

Andromeda Photoshop processing

Astrophoto guides

Image processing Processing the Andromeda Galaxy in Photoshop

How to safely photograph the Sun. Credit: Pete Lawrence

Astrophoto guides

How to safely photograph the Sun